2022

California high schools are in need of reforms that would allow students to received individualized educations rather than a one-size-fits-all approach.

Politicians have made promises and voters have acted, but is California officialdom truly willing and able to confront the state's worst-in-the-nation homelessness crisis?

Note: The newsletter will pause until Tuesday, Nov. 29 for the holiday weekend. Happy Thanksgiving! And then there was one. Just one California race for a U.S. House of Representatives seat remained too close to call as of Tuesday, two weeks after the Nov. 8 election: With about 335,000 unprocessed ballots left to count, Republican […]

California has almost recovered the millions of jobs that vanished during the COVID-19 recession, but the future of employment in the state is cloudy.

EN RESUMEN Cal Poly San Luis Obispo se enfrenta a una respuesta negativa por la contratación del excanciller de Cal State, Joseph Castro, para un puesto docente. Castro renunció a la cancillería en febrero a raíz de un escándalo sobre cómo manejó las acusaciones de acoso sexual contra un alto administrador. Read this article in […]

Cal Poly San Luis Obispo is facing backlash over the hiring of former Cal State Chancellor Joseph Castro for a faculty role. Castro resigned the chancellorship in February in the wake of a scandal over how he handled sexual harassment allegations against a top administrator.

The herbicide paraquat is banned in dozens of countries due to its well-documented links to Parkinson's disease and cancer, yet the U.S. and California still allow it.

When might Californians get more details about Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposal to enact a windfall profits tax on oil companies, which newly elected state lawmakers are set to consider in a special legislative session beginning on Dec. 5? The specifics of the proposal aren’t likely to surface until the start of the special session, the […]

Democrats hoped to make some big gains in California's congressional elections this year, but the outcome was a virtual draw - and an indirect win for Republicans.

David Lesher’s drive to hold elected officials accountable makes his work on the new investigative journalism effort meaningful and imperative.